Not an awful film, but I wouldn't be too bothered about seeing it again.

Re the ending

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CJClarke hit the nail on the head a few posts up. If JGL killed himself, then he wouldn't have lived his life, so he'd never have gone back in time, and he would never have to have killed himself.

If that happened then he would have lived his life and then got sent back and the film would happen again.

Also I was a bit disapponted in the look of the film.

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It was set in the late 40's (for the most part) but everywhere was so crummy looking. Not that I think everything in going to be chrome and shiny at that point but the cars, the were like our cars now with solar panels glued on. The farmhouse was like a farmhouse from this time.

I would have like things a bit more futuristic. These points are fairly petty but its just things I noticed.

As a person who's an uneasy fan of CGI (it drowns out many films, can often be distracting & ruin a film if it looks od or cheap) I found the relative lack of it here refreshing.

But then it didnt have an engrossing story to compensate for its loss.

I did read before watching the film that having similar looking cars as now was deliberate. It was an attempt to show that despite some technical advancement that there had been little economic development in the preceding 30 years. Hence the increase in vagrancy and poverty as the welfare state became unaffordable/unpopular.

THis movie just screams "global recession". I liked that apocalyptic element to it, but I also thought that'd date it very quickly...

As a person who's an uneasy fan of CGI (it drowns out many films, can often be distracting & ruin a film if it looks od or cheap) I found the relative lack of it here refreshing.

But then it didnt have an engrossing story to compensate for its loss.

To me, the glaring lack of CGI just pointed to "smaller budget" IMO

Well the thing is, they had some pretty cool bikes in it. The kind of things I would imagine to exist at that time. But the cars looked awful. Bad solar panels on them with wires everywhere.

Just seemed so strange.

And I don't mind that they didn't use CGI, but if you're setting a film in the future, you need it to look like the future. And I appreciate that they wanted it to look like an Armageddon of a recession had hit, but companies are still going to be innovative.

Well the thing is, they had some pretty cool bikes in it. The kind of things I would imagine to exist at that time. But the cars looked awful. Bad solar panels on them with wires everywhere.

Just seemed so strange.

And I don't mind that they didn't use CGI, but if you're setting a film in the future, you need it to look like the future. And I appreciate that they wanted it to look like an Armageddon of a recession had hit, but companies are still going to be innovative.

How on earth would you know what the future will look like?

It's all guess work, if you go by Back to the Future we're only a few years away from HoverBoards, Flying Cars, mini vacuum pizza that cooks in a few seconds.

Well the thing is, they had some pretty cool bikes in it. The kind of things I would imagine to exist at that time. But the cars looked awful. Bad solar panels on them with wires everywhere.

Just seemed so strange.

And I don't mind that they didn't use CGI, but if you're setting a film in the future, you need it to look like the future. And I appreciate that they wanted it to look like an Armageddon of a recession had hit, but companies are still going to be innovative.

Because cars in 1982 looked so incredibly different to how cars look today?

I imagine it will take a VERY long time for the future to be Minority Report style.
There will no doubt be big technological advancements but I bet 2040 would be very much a mix of ultra-future and old-crap.

Many places worldwide struggle to find funding for regeneration for many reasons - I can't see much changing in 30 years. There are many many places, cars, buildings etc that look the same or very similar to what they did in 1982.

I enjoyed Looper at the time, but the plot doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. I'm not bothered by time travel paradoxes, but other stuff.

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Why wouldn't the gangster kill their victims before sending the bodies to the past, and so avoid the risk of a victim escaping? If it's so hard to kill, why did they murder the hero's wife so casually?

However, there was a lot that I liked, including bits which I gather others didn't like. The general look of the place, for example, I thought was well-done.

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I'm glad the Rainmaker didn't turn out to be GJL. I liked that the woman he fancied really wasn't into him. I liked how smart the boy was.